InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU - Vice Chairman of Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA), Togar Sitanggang described his analysis that most of the palm oil plantations which got the PSR and helped by Palm oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) were the former smallholders in PIR while the targets are the independent smallholders.
This happened for those who joined PIR program have got Procedure Operational Standards, that is, in the 17th year after the cultivation, the smallholders should prepare the fund to do replanting by saving their income. “In the 17th year the income of the PIR smallholders would be about 85% and the rests would be used to replanting program,” he recently said.
In the outline, the program of ‘Perkebunan Besar Swasta Nasional’ (PBSN) that the World Bank funded had good role model of main – plasma. But the second and the third PBSN program did not follow the previous regulations. (T2)
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